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Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee,
sent a letter to President Bush on June 2, demanding a full explanation from the Administration,
as to why senior officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, and the President himself, “cited forged evidence about Iraq’s efforts
to obtain nuclear materials.”

We republish this Feb. 9 warning memorandum by Lyndon LaRouche, circulated nationally
as a mass leaflet by his Presidential campaign committee, in the aftermath of Secretary
Powell’s infamous speech to the UN Security Council.

Economics

The Rome government will propose, when it begins its semester as European Union chair
on July 1, that EU member-states’ spending for infrastructure be exempted from the
budget deficit limits, and therefore not regulated under the Stability Pact.

The author, who is a Commissioner on the Atomic Energy Commission of South Korea and
former chairman of the International Nuclear Societies Council, calls on the nuclear
community to “take up the gauntlet” and move nuclear technology forward for the benefit
of mankind—from desalinating water, to transmuting waste, and new methods of steelmaking.

Feature

Part 2 in our coverage of the impact of the international conference “World Situation
after Iraq War,” held in Bangalore, India on May 26-27, by India’s Centre for Social
Justice and the Schiller Institute.

International

Can one part of the Bush Administration organize peace between Palestine and Israel,
while another is leading an unjust occupation in Iraq and is calling for “regime change,”
if not war, in Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia?

National

On the day before the Federal Communications Commission voted for further deregulation
of the nation’s broadcast and print media, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon
LaRouche warned that this deregulation scheme must be stopped, on the grounds that
it is a threat to U.S. national security.

Departments

Corrections

In last week’s issue, the article on “Krafft Ehricke’s Mission to Mars,” pp. 14-15,
gave the wrong e-mail address for the Krafft Ehricke Institute. The correct address
is krafftehrickeinst@sbcglobal.net.

Dr. Areti Demosthenous, whose speech to the Bad Schwalbach conference we published
in our May 9 issue, was not correctly identified. She is Director of the Institute
of Historical Research for Peace, Visiting Lecturer at the Department for Turkish
Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia. Cyprus.